"Well, well! You actually joined forces with outsiders! I'll make you pay for this today!"
[Spirit Lake Great Array] activated!
It was an ultimate move similar to Manifestation of Heaven and Earth.
In an instant, the monkey and the weapon in his hands grew gigantic.
For a moment, that overwhelming energy could practically blanket the entire mountain range!
At that moment, the Divine Monkey King and those fierce beasts probably never dreamed that all their efforts were now in vain.
The things he was desperately protecting were already in Shi Xiu and his companions' stomachs.
Along with plenty of cumin-seasoned roast meat.
The fragrance of fine wine and delicious food finally proved too much for the golden egg they had picked up earlier.
Crack!
A strange bird, completely bare from head to toe, emerged.
Then he swaggered over and began drinking wine and eating meat.
He did not treat himself as an outsider at all.
And when Big Red saw this fellow,
a puzzled gleam flashed in his eyes.
"Where did you come from?"
"I am a divine beast! You disturbed my cultivation. What's wrong with eating a little food?"
This fellow ate their food with such brazen self-righteousness.
It really was rather unexpected.
Although Shi Xiu was already a little overwhelmed by the wine, he still staggered over.
"You seem to be the same kind as Big Red, so we'll call you Baldy!"
It was a very fitting name.
But it immediately made the featherless fellow before them jump!
"I protest! What kind of eyes do you people have?"
But before he could finish,
Shi Hao drunkenly walked over to voice his agreement.
"Baldy is a great name! It fits perfectly!"
Wonderful.
Now the featherless chicken before them was left utterly speechless.
Although he might truly possess formidable reserves of power,
he could not bring any of them to bear in his current state.
Getting to feast on rich food and fine drink with these youngsters was already more than good enough.
If those natives actually caught him, they might steam him outright.
But Shi Xiu could no longer concern himself with any of that.
After this feast of fine wine and delicious food,
even his existing nine grotto-heavens realm showed faint signs of a breakthrough.
At the same time, a similar change appeared in Shi Hao.
This Monkey Wine truly deserved to be called a supreme treasure medicine.
It had brought both brothers straight to the brink of a breakthrough.
Clang!
Whoosh!
Two golden pillars of light, one large and one small, appeared.
Without warning, they shot into the heavens from the far rear of Flower-Fruit Mountain.
They radiated incredible divine radiance.
They immediately drew the attention of the gigantic Divine Monkey King.
A deeply ominous feeling rose in his heart.
He hurriedly ordered his subordinates,
"Go and see what's happening!"
Since ancient times, few powerful cultivators had managed to open eight grotto-heavens.
Yet now, of the two youths before them, one was attempting to reach ten grotto-heavens, and the other nine.
Such a sight was simply unprecedented throughout the ages.
Huo Ling'er and Yun Xi also reached an understanding.
They led their subordinates to stand guard before the two.
At such a critical moment, someone had to protect them.
Otherwise, outside disturbances could easily disrupt them.
[Ding! Congratulations, host. You are about to open a new Secret Realm. The system will attempt to connect to the endless void.]
Shi Xiu had never expected his attempt to advance to produce such an effect.
Now, within the endless void, amid countless parallel planes,
beyond the far end of the river of time,
a door seemed to be slowly opening.
Within the vast curtain of Shrouding the Heavens, in a space that did not belong to Perfect World at all,
a pair of eyes suddenly snapped open.
"Who? Who is it?"
It seemed to be a monster covered in red hair, yet he could transmit human speech through his consciousness.
This was a Source Heavenly Master, an unparalleled powerhouse and a sage who had saved the Human Race, only to suffer ominous misfortune in his twilight years!
Just as his consciousness was about to be swallowed completely by darkness,
a glimmer of light seemed to appear in the Red-Haired Monster's eyes.
Across the endless river of time, a youth seemed to be studying him with curious eyes.
For both of them,
this was a rare experience.
Each was a supreme Secret Realm to the other.
"Who are you?"
Through the haze, Shi Xiu saw the monster before him, covered in red hair yet with light shining in his eyes.
Forcing down his astonishment, Shi Xiu cautiously posed the question.
The other party seemed unable to answer aloud.
Instead, he used his hands, covered in thick red hair, to trace all manner of symbols in the air.
They resembled sign language, yet also some kind of field filled with mysterious power.
Unfortunately, the connection between them was unstable.
And an unexpected interloper barged in midway.
It was a general under the Divine Monkey King, charging over with a troop of monkeys.
Because of this outside interference,
the connection between Shi Xiu and that old monster broke off.
How infuriating!
"I absolutely won't let you touch them!"
Huo Ling'er was truly imposing.
Working with her guards, she directly blocked half the monkeys.
On the other side, Yun Xi and the Golden Beast from Heavenly God Mountain stopped the rest.
Though the situation looked somewhat risky, their defense was watertight.
At that moment, Shi Xiu also emerged from that inexplicable connection through the void.
If his guess was right,
the figure just now should have been a Source Heavenly Master, with the red hair marking the ominous affliction of his later years.
His ability to enter that state just now
was probably thanks to the heavenly dao treasure body.
Unfortunately, this troop of monkeys had ruined everything.
In his fury,
Shi Xiu, who had just opened his ten grotto-heavens, charged straight out.
He seized the leading monkey general by the skull and, without another word, slammed him into the ground.
Boom!
Screech, screech, screech!
Good heavens, that ferocious strike
sent the monkey general straight to his death.
His entire head was buried in the earth, with half his body sticking out and trembling faintly.
The little monkeys nearby shrieked in terror at the sight.
In an instant, they scattered like birds and beasts.
The man before them, his entire body brimming with sacred energy, terrified them.
He seemed even more powerful than the most savage beasts in the Hundred Broken Mountains.
"Brother Shi, did you break through?"
As she looked at the incomparably valiant man before her,
Yun Xi's eyes filled with joy.
She wanted nothing more than to throw herself into his arms at once.
But after glancing at Huo Ling'er beside her, she forcibly suppressed the impulse.
"Hmph! As expected of the man this princess chose. He's far stronger than that little brat!"
By then, Shi Hao was also nearing the end of his attempt to open nine grotto-heavens.
But he had no system to assist him.
Nor did he have the support of a heavenly dao treasure body.
The Supreme Bone inside him did not concern itself with such things.
However, Shi Xiu's actions just now immediately caught the giant monkey's attention.
The Divine Monkey King had never imagined that while he was desperately locked in combat with that green Flood Dragon,
someone had already cut off his rear.
And next, the man and two women before him began collecting the nearby Peach Trees.
These were rare treasure medicines even within the Hundred Broken Mountains.
The reason the Divine Monkey King had remained on Flower-Fruit Mountain all this time
was to wait for these few treasure medicines to mature!
Yet now, he was about to watch all his hard work become a wedding gown sewn for someone else.
How could this great monkey swallow such an insult?
"Human brat, you've gone too far! This king will not spare you today!"
Seeing his treasure medicines about to be stolen,
how could the Divine Monkey King still bother with the old loach beside him?
He raised the weapon in his hand and swiftly hurled it toward them.
He seemed intent on stopping someone!
But was Shi Xiu really so easy to stop?
"Ten grotto-heavens, open!"
An inconceivable light
burst forth from behind the man.
Then ten grotto-heavens appeared before everyone.
Was this a joke?
Wasn't this a realm that only gods in myths could possess?
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